WWW-VL History Index. History of Afghanistan

WWW-VL HISTORY: AFGHANISTAN this site is looking for a maintainer, December 2005.

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Research Tools

Maps
- Main Map [214Kb]
- Other Maps, including satellite and aerial photographs
  - Relief Map
  - Roads and Airports Reliefweb xx
  - Afghanistan Online Geographic Materials
  - Index to Afghan Maps
  - Map Collection
    - Administrative Subdivisions, from Afhan Info Centre.
    - Provinces
  - City Maps
    - Large Cities, from Afghan Info Centre
    - Herat
    - Kandahar
    - Kabul
    - Jalalabad
    - Mazar
- Gazeteers and Guide Books
- Geographic Finding Aids
Language
Reference Works
Country Studies, Afghanistan
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias
  - Britannica
Bibliography
- Bibliography including link pages
  - Afghanistan: An Overview [University of California at Berkley Library]
  - Afghanistan Online
  - Links to Sites and Writings on Afghanistan
  - Bibliography from the Online Center of Afghan Studies
  - Bibliography of Afghan-Soviet Conflict, 1979-1989
  - Adminet
- Archives
  - Text
    - Hazarah Cultural and Historical Archives [on-line]
  - Images
    - Photo Gallery, from Afghan Info Center
  - Sound
- Libraries
- Journals
- Publishers and Bookdealers
  - Afghan On-Line Boostore
Biography and Genealogy
- Demography
- Collective Biography
- Individual Biographies

Materials

On-Line Texts and Document Collections
- Accords, Treaties, and Archival Materials
- Constitutions
- Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier, by David B. Edwards
Journals
- Afghan Voice
- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) 1997-99 [extensive anti-Taliban materials]

Associations

Research Institutes
The Afghan Resarch Group
Centre de recherche et d'études documentaires sur l'Afghanistan (CEREDAF) and AFRANE (France)
German Institute for Middle East Studies
Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient
On-Line Center for Afghan Studies
Scholarly Societies
- Universities
  - Zentralasien-Seminar an der Humult-Universität
- Museums
  - The Kabul Museum
- Funding Institutions
  - Afghanistan Foundation
  - Afghan Community Foundation, Inc.

Instruction

Distance Learning Centers
On-Line Course Materials
On-Line Syllabi and Lectures
Employment

Timelines

History

Surveys and Overviews
- Afghan History, from Aghan Info Center
Ancient
- Coins of Ancient Afghanistan
Medieval
16th Century
- Moghul & Safavid Empire, from Afghan Info Centre
17th Century
- Moghul & Safavid Empire, from Afghan Info Centre
18th Century
- Ahmad Shah Baba Empire, 1747-1777
19th Century
- Historical Background for Today's Great Game
20th Century
- King Mohammed Zahir Shah, reigned 1933-1973
- A Brief History Focusing on 1979-2001
- Leftist Coup and Civil War .pdf file
  - Afghanistan After Saour Events of 17 April 1978
  - Afghan Civil War, 1978-Present, from The History Guy
- Soviet Intervention
  - Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982, by M. Hassan Kakar
  - Russo-Afghan War, 27 December 1979-15 February 1989
  - Silent Soldier. The Man Behind the Afgan Jehad, by Brigadier (Retd.) Mohammad Yousaf, S.Bt.
  - The Soviet War in Afghanistan. History and Harbinger of Future War?
- Taliban Rule
- British-US Intervention
  - Afghan Info. Summary and Analysis [offers a variety of data and materials The Mazar-i-Sharif's Kalai Jangi uprising by Taliban, 26 November 2001
- Aftermath
  A Short Chronology of Political Events in the Last Two Decades in Afghanistan
- Human Rights Practices at the Close of the Century
- 21st Century
  - Taliban
  - The September 11th Sourcebooks, from The National Security Archive.
  - The Plight of the Afghan Woman
- Appropriate Subdivisions

Topical

Appropriate Subjects

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